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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libalpm/add.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libalpm/add.c b/lib/libalpm/add.c index c9bcea5e..a8da745c 100644 --- a/lib/libalpm/add.c +++ b/lib/libalpm/add.c @@ -704,7 +704,15 @@ int _alpm_add_commit(pmtrans_t *trans, pmdb_t *db) archive_entry_set_pathname(entry, filename); - int ret = archive_read_extract(archive, entry, archive_flags); + /* FS #7484 + * By default, libarchive 2.2.3 overwrites existing symlinks by directories from the archive, + * which isn't the behavior we want. + * This can be avoided by using the ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_NO_OVERWRITE flag, and this works + * fine because all files where an overwrite could be needed are deleted first : + * 1) if it's an upgrade, existing files are removed when the old pkg is removed + * 2) if there is a file conflict, but --force is used, then files are also removed : see above + */ + int ret = archive_read_extract(archive, entry, archive_flags | ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_NO_OVERWRITE); if(ret == ARCHIVE_WARN) { /* operation succeeded but a non-critical error was encountered */ _alpm_log(PM_LOG_DEBUG, _("warning extracting %s (%s)"), |